[Indian Archipelago]

Description or account of the great, rich and populous Island of Sumatra (Camotora) and of the islands which are around it, and it will be described all the way round, beginning at Gamispola along the channel and going round by Pamchur back to Gamispola. In the island of Sumatra most of the kings are Moors and some are heathens; and in the heathen country some men make a practice of eating their enemies when they capture them. The islands which are called Gamispola are two or three and more, near the land of Achin and Lambry. There must be about ten or fifteen islands three or four leagues round and the sea between them is two, three or four leagues, and it is twenty or thirty fathoms near the land. The country called Aeilabu is on the sea coast beyond the frontiers of Pedir.